Marijuana Myths and Facts

Awesome read, it is great for reinforcing what i had made assumptions on and gives me a great wealth of extra material to fight the smokers corner from. (please noted when i say smoker in this i mean bud smoker and not tobacco smoker - as the comparison in this is Bud vs Beer)

I've been meaning for some time to look up the statistics for the Friday/Saturday night hospital visits for both Drinking and Smoking related problems. In the UK we seem to have quite an abundence of people drinking heavily (especially on weekends) I've been through it and not an eyebrow was raised. I was around people fighting, getting attacked for petty things (accidentally bumping into someone in a pub and knocking a beer, lead to the same beer glass being put over the bumpers head) and people who during the day are genuinly nice people turning into womanising/ police abusing animals.

Needless to say this was before i became a regular smoker, When i became a smoker the crowd changed and we would be out (hopefully in the sun) at the park having a smoke quitely somewhere, not wanting to cause a problem because we could all be busted, this has now progessed to our own living rooms (and gardens for those under the thumb) and the whole environment is a lot nicer to be in, the main thing i have found is the fact that i feel safer smoking than i ever did drinking, mainly because of the effects it has on people.

In my experience drinking causes more problems than smoking and also seems to have a much more profound effect on the overall health care system than smoking does. If i was god i would love for one day, simply make everyone stoned for 3 hours, have the entire wealth of actual research transfered into everyones mind and then allow a global Consciousness to once and for all decide if it should be legal or not. My money would be on world wide legalisation.

anyway i type too much.

Have a good one

Stuart